Heather 🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Here's Anas Sarwar saying it would be untenable for the SNP to impose an unelected FM on Scotland. Presumably the motormouth feels the same way should Starmer step down.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Research by Action to Protect Rural Scotland has claimed that if all 16 large data centres currently in ­planning went ahead, their energy use would be 1.5 times greater than peak winter demand for the whole of Scotland.

This is insane.

[rían 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸 @r_stwrt_]

I do not know how this isn’t a major story across Scotland.

As far as I can see the National and the Scotsman are the only ones willing to report on it.

Clearly the Sun is more focused on Nicola Sturgeon’s Pizza, the Times criticising John Swinney in the USA and the Daily Mail is obsessing over MSPs genitalia to care about the Scottish economy

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

If BBC Scotland spent the same time and resource covering the news yesterday that Scottish renewable energy projects face a £1bn charge to connect to the grid but firms south of the border will be *paid* to connect, than it has to today's 'schools crisis' story it might not be losing viewers and listeners.
https://t.co/EUqZ1vsm5w

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are campaigning against a monster AI data centre that is being proposed to be situated right next to their scenic village.

Just look at the size of this monstrosity. The 61-acre site features six AI data halls rising up to 35 metres high. It dwarfs the neighbouring village of Auchtertool. Imagine living next to this?

The proposed data centre is one of the biggest in the world - bigger than their village. And it’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption. It’s also being situated on beautiful countryside. Fife Council haven’t published an environmental impact report.

The development would sit directly on scenic countryside, build directly over the historic ruins of Halyard's Castle, and threaten the adjacent Auchtertool Linn Wildlife Site. Recent planning portal filings reveal the data centre site would be secured by invisible infra-red lighting and 3-metre fencing topped with trident spikes.

This campaign to stop this AI data centre monstrosity in Fife is now receiving huge amounts of media and social media coverage. For once, people power can defeat tech corporations power if this campaign continues to be amplified.

This is a big issue. Not just for Auchtertool, not just for Fife, not just for Scotland but for the world and we have to make a stand against the huge environmental and energy and water supply risks caused by these AI data centres.

In Ireland data centres energy demand has put unprecedented strain on the grid. A moratorium on new data centre construction was put in place in 2021 due to fears of blackouts which was only eased last year. This energy crisis in Ireland happened with 22% of Ireland’s energy (2025 figures) used by data centres. The energy demands of the Auchtertool hyperscale data centre alone would take Scotland’s data centre energy demand to this level.  

The total demand for energy from data centres in Scotland’s planning system is now 6,200MW and plans for six sites that haven’t reached planning stage yet, which would take the total to over 11,000MW, nearly three times the amount of Scotland’s winter peak demand.

Also, rising energy prices: In the USA, energy prices have soared due to the infrastructure that has had to be built to support the energy demands of hyperscale data centres. Bloomberg has reported that prices soared by up to 267% more in areas with data centres.

It’s time for governments to put the concerns of the public before the profit margins of tech billionaires.

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Has Reform commented on this yet?

[Nicky @NickyZog]

Just mental, £1.5bn investment for the Highlands rejected by the UK government and now likely going to be built in Spain. 🤷‍♂️

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

On Sky News, John Rees from Stop the War Coalition just completely dismantled the ridiculous claim that the pro-Palestine peace marches have anything whatsoever to do with the Golders Green attack.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

How the world works in a nutshell: giant corporations profit from an illegal war whilst the governments who wage them tell the rest of us to tighten our belts.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Same day, same outlet (the BBC):

Somalis "hijack" ships.
The US merely "boards" them.

This is how consent is manufactured in real time.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Things you don’t hear…….

[The National @ScotNational]

Anas Sarwar and Wes Streeting have both been rapped by the UK stats watchdog over claims about Scotland's NHS that 'risk misleading the public' ⬇️

[Gordon Macdonald SNP @GMacdonaldSNP]

No mention that France introduced a similar scheme back 2023 to cap essential food items due to high food prices.

The same policy was being considered by the UK gov.

But it’s only a ‘gimmick’ because it is an SNP policy,

Meanwhile, Tesco profits last year were £3.15 billion!

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

The SNP has protected NHS Scotland from both the austerity of the Tory Govt and the privatisation of both Tories and Labour.

Over 10% of the NHS in England is now privatised.

The SNP have kept privatisation to less than 1% in Scotland.

All while maintaining lower waiting lists, higher doctor to patient ratios, no charge prescriptions, no hospital parking charges, no charge personal social care
and more hospital beds.

All for about £100 a year extra in tax.

I think @theSNP have done well with limited powers.

[The SNP @theSNP]

Busted.

Anas Sarwar approached Reform’s leader asking to form an alliance against the SNP.

Source: Reform’s leader.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Why is it always a minor administrative error when the rich overlook tens of thousands of pounds of tax, but it’s fraud when a working class person accidentally under pays tax by a few quid?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

This is absolutely beyond — way beyond — anything close to sanity.

This is a man who must be removed from power via the 25th Amendment NOW.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

The desperation is obvious. Backing a compromised government in Hungary while sending a VP to parrot talking points in what looked like a coordinated propaganda stunt reminiscent of Soviet Russia, and days before Hungarians go to the polls, should, embarrass anyone who still believes in American values.

It’s election interference that reeks of alignment with Russia, period.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

This is a moment of extreme danger for civilians in Iran and the wider region.

For President Trump to threaten that 'a whole civilisation will die tonight' echoes genocidal language.

The UK government must urgently end military support to the US that could enable crimes under international law, including war crimes.

Amnesty International is unequivocal: threatening to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure is a threat to commit war crimes.

Attacking power plants essential to the survival of tens of millions of civilians would be unlawful.

The UK must act now.

Read on: https://t.co/eksGRKBiYi